A head start on health

Stefan’s research looks at how real-life accounts of recovery from mental health problems can be used to help others. He will discuss a recent systematic review which reveals the various ways in which mental health narratives have been used by healthcare services, and which identifies uses that might be thought of as abusive. Stefan first started developing an interest in this topic in 2016, and he plans to give a personal account of how early ideas are developed into rigorous collaborative scientific research, which can then in turn influence future scholarship.

Hi, I’m Tom, and I’m a second year PhD student at the University of Nottingham. My work looks into whether we can predict cases of dementia before they happen. I also look into how different dementias develop, to see if we can find anywhere in the process where drugs could be used to stop progression.

Shazmin is a fourth year Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science (University of Nottingham) and User Experience Lead At BlueSkeye AI. A research psychologist by background, but now walking down the avenue of the bright lights of technology. Shazmin’s Ph.D. and role at BlueSkeye are around developing technology to improve mental health using AI. She is an advocate of real user-centered design and believes no technology for mental health should be developed without real empowerment of the users voice. This talk covers her research on this role of the user in AI technology design.